A White House spokesperson said Wednesday that US President Barack Obama would veto proposed legislation that would reinstate the 40-hour work week requirement for employer health care coverage. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday spoke out against the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , expressing his shock and appall at at the actions of the terrorists who carried it out. The...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accepted documents submitted by Palestine on Tuesday which will allow Palestine to become a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in April. As a member of the ICC,...
The Ugandan army on Wednesday confirmed that top Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) commander Dominic Ongwen is now in the custody of US forces. Ongwen, the second-in-command of the rebel militia group headed by alleged Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony...
Authorities in Kuwait on Wednesday ordered the 10-day detainment of former lawmaker Saleh al-Mullah for tweets criticizing the Gulf country's leader Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and his support for Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi [BBC...
Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) on Wednesday reached a settlement in a lawsuit concerning the Niger Delta oil spills of 2008. The settlement, totaling USD $84 million, will be divided between 15,600 individuals who will receive $3,300 each...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday expressed concern over the killing of a man who was a potential witness in the trial of Deputy Kenyan President William Ruto . Meshack...
Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday signed into law anti-terrorism legislation that will establish military courts for the hearing of civilian terrorism related cases. The president's signature comes one day after the Pakistan National Assembly ...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday overturned the release of terrorist suspect Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi. Lakhvi, head of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) , was the alleged organizer of the 2008 Mumbai attacks ...
Bangladesh police on Tuesday arrested Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) , on counts of arson, bombings and vandalism. On Monday supporters of the BNP, the country's main opposition party, led rallies...
